Improvement in hat-pouncing machines



W. KBENAN. Halt-Pounoing Machines.

No. 223,144. Patented Dec. 30,1879.

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Um'rnn STATES PATENT Onrrcnt WILLIAM KEENAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEWv YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF' OF HIS RIGHT TO NICHOLAS B. HOOPER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAT-POUNCING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 223, [44, dated December 30, 1879; application tiled -June 27, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM KEENAN, of the city ot' Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat- Pouncing Machines, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ot' this specification.

This invention, like my invention for which Letters Patent N o. 208,179 were granted September 17, 1878, is more particularly designed for pouncing the crown portions of hats, and, as in the apparatus described in said patent, employs a reciprocating pouncer carried by a manipulating-lever capable ot' movement in various directions, and operating, in conjunction with a revolving block on which the hat or article to be pounced is placed, to imitate and derive the advantages incidental to the ordinary process of pouncing by hand. This invention, however, essentially differs from my previous combinations of devices in various important respects.

To these ends the invention consists in a combination7 with the rotating block which carries the hat-body or article to be pouuced, of a universally-movable manipulating-lever, two or more reciprocating pouncers carried by said lever, and capable of 'turning about the longitudinal axis thereof to bring one or other of them, which may be of different grades, into action on the body or article under operation Without stopping the machine.

Furthermore, the invention consists in certain combinations and arrangements of mechanism for operating the pouncers, and for providing' for the free and universal movement of the manipulating-lever, including gearing directly applied to and carried by said lever for reciprocating the pouncers.

In the accompanying' drawings, Figure l represents a side elevation of a hat-pouncing machine having my invention applied; Fig. 2, an upper section ofthe same, taken mainly as indicated by the line x .c in Fig. l 5 and Fig. 3, a transverse section, on the line y y in Fig. 2, through the frame-like lever which carries the pouncers proper.

A is the frame ofthe machine. This frame 'exposure of' the hat-bodyto the pouncing devices, as in other hat-pouncing machines, and may be rotated in a slow but regular manner by means ot` an endless screw, b, on a mainA lower horizontal driving-shaft, D, arranged to operate a worm-wheel, c, carried by or connected with the upright spindle of the block O. Said block-spindle should be fitted to the worin-gear c, with a feather and groove or otherwise, in such manner that the block may be raised and lowered, preferably by means of a treadle actuated by the operator from the front of the machine, to adjust the part ofthe body or article being pounced to the right height for an effective operation; but otherwise the block O need have no motion excepting around its own upright or longitudinal axis.

The main driving-shaft D, which is driven by any suitable power, carries a pulley, d, that serves to communicate motion, by a belt or band, c, and pulley j', to a spindle, E, having its bearing in the rear upper portion of the main frame. This spindle E is connected by a fiexible shaft, G, composed of universaljoint couplings g h and longitudinally-extensible sections i la, with a rotating stud or spindle, Z, which carries on its advance end a bevel-pinion, m. This pinion m rotates within the manipulating-lever H of the machine, and gears with` a bevelpinion, a, carried by said lever. Upon the spindle of the pinion a is a crank, o, connected by a rod, r, with the pouncers I I, for giving the necessary longitudinal reciprocating motion to the latter.

The manipulating-lever H is of a frame-like l construction to form guides for the pouncers I I to reciprocate upon, and is furnished atits forward end with a handle, s, bywhich it is manipulated. Said lever is provided at its rear end with a sleeve, a', through which the rotating stud or spindle l passes, and within which the latter has its bearing. This sleeve a is arranged to freelyrotate within and transversely through a rocking cross-bar, b', ar-

ranged to work on centers c c in an upright siviveling or vibrating jaw-like support, d', said rocking cross-bar and vibrating jaw-like support d constitutin g a universal-ici nted bearing or support for the manipulating-lever H, and serving, in conjunction with the iiexible shaft G, to provide for the most perfectly free and universal movement of said manipulatinglever. Furthermore, the provision which is made by the rotative bearing of the frame-like lever Hin the cross-bar b and on or around the spindle l allows for the turning of said lever on or around the axial line of said sie-eve a and spindle Z to reverse the pouncers I I,

which may be composed ot' boards or plates clad With sand-paper or other suitable pouncing` material, and which may, respectively, be of different coarseness. This arrangement of the pouncers ot' different grades on opposite sides of the manipulatinglever H and the provision which is made for reversing them to act upon the hat-body on the block C allow for coarse and iine pouncing successively Without stopping the machine; and, if desired, more than two sides ot' the lever H may be provided with pouncers of different relative grades, to thus vary the action of the pouncers on the goods Without stopping the machine. The combination and arrangement of the Working parts, too, is such that the pouncers may at all times have a straight reciprocating action in line with the mani pulatin g-lever without straining on the gear which actuates them, and said lever is made capable ot' the most perfectly free and universal movement to adapt the pouncers to conform to the varying gure of the hat-body on the block C, and exert a rubbing action in dii-ferent directions and on or over as well as on opposite sides of it, With freedom for varying the pressure as required, and for removing them from Contact with the hat-body Wheny necessary, as in the case of pouncing by hand.

I claim- 1. The combination, with a rotating block on which the hat-body or article to be pounced is placed, of a universally-movable manipulating-lever, tWo or more reciprocating pouncers carried by said lever, and capable ot' turning about the longitudinal axis thereof to bring one or other of them, as described, into action on the body or article under operation, substantially as specified. Y

2. The combination, With the manipulatinglever which carries the pouiicers, of gearing directly applied to and carried by said lever,

for reciprocating the pouncers in direction of the length of said lever, essentially as described.

3. The combination of the rotating spindle l, the bevel-pinions m n, the crank 0, the connecting-rod r, the pouncers I, the manipulating-lever H, the sleeve a', the rocking crossbar b', and the turning orjaW-like support d, substantially as speciiied.

4. The combination, with the spindle E, otA the flexible shaft G, having universally-jointed couplings g h at its opposite ends, and eXtensible sections fi k, and the manipulating-lever H, provided with one or more pouncers, and

supported by an independent universal joint at its connection with said iiexible shaft, essentially as described.

WILLIAM KEENAN.v

Witnesses:

EDW. P. JnssUP, T. J. KEANE. 

